Otavio Ranzani

The potential impact of reduced international donor funding on the household economic burden of tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries: A modeling study In a modelling study, Allison Portnoy and colleagues investigate the potential impact of reduced international donor funding on the household economic burden of Tuberculosis in low- and middle-income ...

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"eliminating all external funding for tuberculosis could lead to nearly 80 billion US dollars in additional household costs and more than 40 million extra households facing catastrophic costs"

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Social protection for tuberculosis—how can we make it universal? Tuberculosis is strongly associated with social determinants such as undernutrition, poor housing, and poor access to health care. Moreover, tuberculosis rates declined in high-income countries well b...

The tuberculosis epidemic continues to thrive because of the neglect and reluctance to invest in social protection

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Three reasons why the European region should worry about tuberculosis Despite decades of experience, advanced health systems, and deep medical knowledge, the WHO European region is still at risk from the global epidemic of tuberculosis. There are at least three pressing...

France just cut its contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria by 58 percent!

And here we are, writing: European nations must continue to stay engaged in global health, continue to provide humanitarian assistance...

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Hi folks! For a methods validation paper, we're looking for a large, cross-sectional, psychometric dataset that will show considerable heterogeneity in item responses, preferably, based on different classes/clusters/groups of people. Open access optimal, but if you have one you'd share w me ...

If you are interested, please contact me with a CV and a brief statement of research interests no later than 02/02/2026.

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📢 Postdoctoral Opportunity (Barcelona, Spain)

I am seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral candidate (any nationality) to apply for the Sara Borrell Fellowship, 3 years postdoc funding, in the 2026 upcoming call (starts on Jan 2027 if funded).

The project is on environmental health 👇

A Fully‐Integrated Bayesian Approach for the Imputation and Analysis of Derived Outcome Variables With Missingness Derived variables are variables that are constructed from one or more source variables through established mathematical operations or algorithms. For example, body mass index (BMI) is a derived varia....

New paper:
‘A fully-integrated Bayesian approach for the imputation and analysis of derived outcome variables with missingness’
Harlan Campbell, me and Paul Gustafson
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If you are interested, please contact me with a CV and a brief statement of research interests no later than 02/02/2026.

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🏡 What we offer
- An enthusiastic and growing research group
- A stimulating and supportive research environment
- Collaboration with national and international partners
- Strong mentoring for fellowship preparation and career development

✅ Key requirements:
- PhD obtained after January 2022
- Strong background in epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental health, or related fields
- Interest in climate-related health research and population-based studies
- Excellent analytical and scientific writing skills

The proposed project will investigate the effects of temperature and air pollution on respiratory diseases, with a particular focus on vulnerable populations and adaptation measures, using advanced epidemiological methods and large-scale population data.

📢 Postdoctoral Opportunity (Barcelona, Spain)

I am seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral candidate (any nationality) to apply for the Sara Borrell Fellowship, 3 years postdoc funding, in the 2026 upcoming call (starts on Jan 2027 if funded).

The project is on environmental health 👇

Do you follow Oded?

You must. Real life academia...

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How to interpret hazard ratios Survival analysis of time-to-event outcomes is very commonly performed using Cox’s famous proportional hazards model. The model estimates hazard ratios for the ‘effects’ of covari…

'How to interpret hazard ratios', with @dominicmagirr.bsky.social and @timpmorris.bsky.social thestatsgeek.com/2026/01/15/h...

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New post on a topic you might have struggled with if you do simulation studies. For a given data-generating mechanism, you might wonder “What is the true value of my estimand?”

This post describes four ways to learn it.
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WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.

If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.

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How to Use Notion for Academic Research – Homepage I provide some advice for how to use Notion’s powerful management software for the unique challenges of academic research.

Inspired by this post by @rmkubinec.bsky.social: What are your favorite project management tools for academic research? I mainly want to keep track of tasks and discussions, and I don't necessarily need file storage. So something that's free would be preferable. www.robertkubinec.com/post/notion/

Working with big spatial data in #rstats?

#duckspatial 🦆

Highly recommended 👏 #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #PwME #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS

"The making of a statistician: Doug Altman" - just published in @bmj.com celebrating his 1 million citations and reflecting on his remarkable career and legacy. One of the most influential statisticians in modern medical research.

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#BMJChristmas #methodologymatters

JAMA article shows graphs comparing SOFA-1 and SOFA-2 scores. Graph A: Score distribution; Graph B: ICU mortality; Graph C: Cumulative ICU mortality. Data presented for total SOFA-1 and SOFA-2 at ICU admission.

SOFA-2, validated in >3 million ICU patients, incorporates contemporary organ support and treatments, showing strong predictive validity for ICU mortality in diverse international settings.

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The Plague That Won’t Die | Pria Anand As my recent diagnosis shows, tuberculosis is not a relic of medical history. It remains the leading infectious cause of death worldwide—and America is hardly immune.

“tuberculosis is not a relic of medical history. It remains the leading infectious cause of death worldwide”

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Haha.... then try to restore them...

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On International Day of People with #Disabilities, please note some disabilities are invisible

#Disability #invisibleillness #disabled #disabledpeople #IDPD #IDPD2025 #IDPD25

BEST ACTOR: Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent